Economics of specific sectors

Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector takes a fresh look at key terms and concepts around which energy research and policy are organised.

This forward-looking volume challenges professionals and interested lay readers to reconsider our ways of looking at health and wellness, illness and disease, and the goals of health/healthcare systems.

As a heavy user of electricity the primary aluminium smelting industry is a leading example of the effects of variations in energy costs.

Global warming is a serious threat to the stability of world climate and to economic prosperity in some regions.

This book analyses the unprecedented economic and social challenges to human civilization from the perspective of Buddhist philosophy.

Seitdem Tourismus zum Milliardengeschäft geworden ist, stellt er ein wachsendes Problem, aber auch eine Chance für die Umwelt dar.

Originally published in 1931 (this re-issues the 8th edition of 1953), this book gives students a comprehensive account of global climatic types and the impact of climate on economics, issues of race, health, meteorology and geography.

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study is a major international initiative drawing attention to local, national and global economic benefits of biodiversity, to highlight the growing costs of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, the benefits of investing in natural capital, and to draw together expertise from the fields of science, economics and policy to enable practical actions.

The book provides a new conceptualisation of inflation in underdeveloped economies, through Sri Lanka's historical experience.

As a forester interested in economics and policy, Daowei Zhang followed the softwood lumber dispute between the U.

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This book highlights the roles of inter-regional networks in regional economies to explore the drivers of sustained regional economic growth.

In 1989 the Dutch government published a National Environmental Policy Plan (Dutch abbreviation NMP).

This book provides a balanced critique of a range of international sustainability certification schemes across nine agricultural and natural resource industries.

The first years of the 90s have witnessed thorough politicaland economic changes in northern Europe.

Bringing together case studies from Kenya, Benin, Cameroon and the Philippines, this volume provides a multidisciplinary overview of the economics of natural resource management in Tropical regions, at household and village level.

Public concern over land management has never been greater.

Of Limits and Growth offers new perspectives on environmentalism, post-1945 international history, and the origins of sustainability.

Following the 2010 earthquake catastrophe, this book examines the economic and political challenges facing Haiti.

This book introduces green bonds and their significance in portfolio management and sustainable finance.

The New Carbon Economy provides a critical understanding of the carbon economy.

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In this study, the author constructs a systematic statistical framework for studying the environment and technology, the economy and society, and performs a series of analyses of the impact of human activities on the environment.

It is zero hour for a new US water policy!

Das vorliegende Buch behandelt das Konzept des Least-Cost Planning ("Minimalkosten-Planung").

Oil is the lifeblood of the global economy, and its misuse carries the risk of heavy economic and environmental penalties.

Dieses Arbeitsbuch ist die Fortsetzung von „Change Management in Gesundheitsunternehmen“, in dem nun der Schwerpunkt auf der Vermittlung von praxisnahen und anwendbaren Methoden im Gesundheitswesen liegt.

This book is a visual guide to the territorial dynamics operating within a territory.

An authoritative reference on food system transformation and how it can be achieved in the face of climate change.

Environmental risk directly affects the financial stability of banks since they bear the financial consequences of the loss of liquidity of the entities to which they lend and of the financial penalties imposed resulting from the failure to comply with regulations and for actions taken that are harmful to the natural environment.

Basic Income in Japan is the first collective volume in English entirely devoted to the discussion of Japan's potential for a basic income program in the context of the country's changing welfare state.

Although in Europe there continues to be a large degree of consensus that it is the responsibility of government to ensure that nobody who is poor, sick, disabled, unemployed, or old is left deprived, there are mounting calls to roll back spending on the welfare state.

Originally published in 1959, this post-war study of farm rents marshals the evidence from a nation-wide survey.

This volume discusses the significance of human rights approaches to food and the way it relates to gender considerations, addressing links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productivity and the environment.

Dieses Buch gibt Medical Advisors, medizinisch-wissenschaftlichen Fachreferenten und Medical-Marketing-Managern der Arzneimittelindustrie​ das erforderliche Know-how zur Realisierung des vollen medizinischen und wirtschaftlichen Potenzials eines Arzneimittels.

This book gives readers the theoretical and empirical methods to analyze applied economics.

Worldwide every year, 83 billion animals are slaughtered on factory farms, at the end of brief lives full of suffering.

One of the major considerations of any environmental resource project must be the effect on human well-being; originally published in 1979, this study aims to deal specifically with the transmission of Schistosomiasis as a human environmental impact.

This bookexamines inclusive growth in a range of social and economic areas in India, including physical infrastructure, vulnerable sections of the population and underdeveloped states.

,This book provides an excellent framework to analyse the experience of a wide variety of successful initiatives across the world and draws attention to critical issues that practitioners need to think about when designing poverty reduction interventions and scaling up.

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Sustainability is a far-reaching survey of the deep and contemporary history of sustainability.

A society that intensifies and expands the use of land and water in urban areas needs to search for solutions to manage the frontiers between these two essential elements for urban living.

The international community has long grappled with the issue of safeguarding the environment and encouraging sustainable development, often with little result.

Examines how interactions between ecology and psychoanalysis shifted the focus of the American wilderness narrative from environment to identity.

During the past decade many countries in the world have experienced droughts, with severe impacts on water urban supply systems.